On Thu, 30 May 2002 15:15:41 UTC, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
> Stan Goodman wrote: > > > So, as I understand it from your recent postings on this group, the > > Warpzilla team will not consider bug reports on systems that do not > > include Java v1.3.1 (including all the new fixes), but the most > > important of these fixes, a new LIBJP.DLL, cannot be distributed in an > > above-board manner, but only in a catch-as-catch-can fashion. > > > > Is that correct? > > You betcha. Sun restricts the distribution of individual fixes, so the most > important fix the Java team has can't be shipped until the next Java refresh. > > Woohoo! > > The reason we don't want the bug reports is because we will just mark them all > WONTFIX. Kind of a waste of time. > > But believe me, I am working very hard to try to figure out how we can get > this fix distributed. This is all very "logical": There is copy of this DLL in Java 1.3.1, but it is defective (else there would have been no need for a new version of the file). So naturally, a fix for the defect can't be distributed legally, and we can wait for the next release of Java, which will, in the nature of things, have its own defects that can't be fixed until the release after that. I (we all) wish you lots of luck in your quest. In the meantime, this has made me remember reading "Catch-22" in much more detail than formerly. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European wrinkle.
